A young and skinny Adolf Hitler in World War I at the age of 26. His friend Max Amann stands in the middle. Note that both men are wearing their Iron Cross second class, interwoven around the second button on their uniform jackets. ​​​​

WW1: A rather pensive British laddie caught by the photographer near Mons, undated. Trench warfare was brutal and unforgiving, Hundreds of thousands returned home with what is today identified as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, yet the literature contains scant information about postwar psychological troubles with violent outcomes. Different times, different people.

Iconic Colourised Images of Operation Market Garden

L/Cpl Paddy McGiven, Sapper Charles Grier and wounded Sapper Dick Robb all from B troop, 1 Para Squadron, Royal Engineers. This picture was taken at 1530hrs on Wednesday the 20th September 1944, in a builders yard near their last position held at the Van Limburg Stirum School in Arnhem.

Our Presidents

The Ike Jacket - General Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the Army’s World War II military uniform to be restricting and poorly suited for combat. Instead he had a standard issue wool field jacket tailored to be “very short, very comfortable, and very natty looking.”Ike urged theater-wide adoption of the shorter jacket in a May 5, 1943, letter to General George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff

Grim reality of World War I brought to life in vivid colour pictures

A soldier poses for a photo on the front line. The man who colorised the photos said: 'We need to remember the lost generation from all parts of the world to make sure a war like this never happens again'

Repubblica Sociale italiana propaganda poster - pin by Paolo Marzioli

August von Mackensen (1849-1944) Field Marshal and field commander, his operations were noted for speed and surprise. He was a corps commander at Tannenberg; commanded the Ninth Army in Poland; captured Lodz in Dec. 1914. May 1915, he commanded the Eleventh Army; spearheaded the Gorlice-Tarnow offensive in Galicia. In 1916, he commanded the Central Powers invasion of Serbia; led the multinational Danube Army during the successful 1916 Romanian Campaign.

Roza Shanina

This is Roza Shanina. She was a remarkable Soviet sniper during WWII. Sadly she did not live to see the end of the war. She died shielding a wounded artillery officer. She was only 20. The picture looks like it was taken yesterday but this colorization was done by the equally remarkable Marina Amaral

Posters, Art Prints, Framed Art, and Wall Art Collection

Achille Starace, 1924. As Fascist Party secretary, he staged huge parades and marches, proposed Anti-Semitic racial segregation measures, and greatly expanded Mussolini's cult of personality.Mussolini said of Starace "A jerk indeed but an obedient one”. Tried to have the "Viva Il Duce" motto made the compulsory ending in public and private correspondence. His body was subsequently strung up next to Mussolini's.

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talesofwar: “ Some very young recruits of the Hitlerjungend serving in the Volksturm being searched. Allied authorities were afraid that young members of the Hitlerjugend, denying the defeat of nazi Germany could join the Werewolf and keep up the...

the_ww2_memoirs A German soldier aims his Gewehr 98 rifle at the camera, most likely for a stoic picture to send him to his family or sweetheart, 1930s. This photograph is a perfect example of the German infanrymen's gear and weaponry during the interwar period. Tunic very similar to Germam WW1, his helmet is a M17 WW1 era helmet with decal, and his gun is the Gewehr 98 which was used in WW1. The German infantrymen was the best trained and one of the best equipped combatants at the outbreak…